Odette may be a heartbreaking heroine in Swan Lake, but in Odette Estate winemaker Jeff Owens’ world she’s historical—and haute.

At last it’s time for the Napa Valley Vintners’ 35th annual Auction Napa Valley, the American Wine Classic.

You may have waited until the last minute to buy your mother her gift but she doesn’t have to know that. In fact, we have some Mother’s Day gift ideas that are so haute, moms will think you planned for a while exactly what to buy her. For some of them, you can order with the click of a button.

There’s a lot more than wine and food in Napa Valley. Really!

As the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival winds down we catch up with film producer Todd Traina, a board member of the San Francisco Film Society, whose festival ends on May 7. The producer and founder of Red Rover Films and Traina Productions answers our questions about Silicon Valley’s role in movie making, what movies he’s looking forward to seeing this summer, what he’s working on [dog lovers will particularly love one of them] and, oh yeah, how we in northern California view Hollywood celebs. His answer to the latter may surprise you!

Like a fine wine, Kobe Bryant just keeps getting better with age, and with the Hublot “Vino,” he has the timepiece to prove it.

The 2015 James Beard Awards winners from the SF Bay Area were Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski [Best Chef West, State Bird Provisions], Shelley Lindgren [A16, Outstanding Wine Program], Rajat Parr [RN 74 and Jessica Largey.

Family Builders celebrated Dia del Nino (Day of the Child) with a fundraising event at the Rotunda Restaurant at Neiman Marcus in San Francisco on April 30. Over 150 guests came out to support the organization and the work it does to create permanent families for children and youth in foster care.

Lazy Bear restaurant in San Francisco and Hudson Valley Foie Gras will host a $500 per person foie gras dinner on May 12, 2015 to help La Toque Chef Ken Frank, who is being sued by the Animal Legal Defense Fund for serving foie gras when it was banned.